The carp at shrines were almost all ornamental fish and carried a certain legendary aura—said to possess spirituality, serve as guardians of the shrine...
Or represent good fortune, or something like that.
So generally speaking, no one would catch and eat even the carp from small shrines. Most people threw coins to them instead! Let alone the Grand Narukami Shrine!
Ordinary worshippers struggled all the way up the mountain, filled with faith and reverence for Narukami—the Raiden Shogun. They held the shrine maidens, and everything else in the shrine, in the utmost respect.
Naturally, no one would dare set their sights on the carp in the Grand Narukami Shrine's pond.
But now, such a person had appeared.
She was Higokumaru.
The Herrscher of Corruption, fearless before heaven and earth!
Seeing the enormous carp in the shrine pond, who cared about spirituality or the environment? In her eyes, they were simply tender, delicious fish.
"Bad luck? Eating a fish can bring bad luck to me? I don't believe it."
Higokumaru hugged the constantly struggling carp in her arms. Once food landed in her hands, there was no returning it. Bad luck? She did not believe in such things.
Gods and such? She was a god herself!
Not only was she the Fox God of Yae Village, she was also the Herrscher of Corruption.
"If you don't care about that, then do as you please." Seeing that Higokumaru was utterly unconcerned by her warning, Yae Miko did not stop her.
Had any other shrine maiden of the Grand Narukami Shrine seen this, she might have desperately tried to stop Higokumaru from catching fish from the shrine pond. But to Yae Miko, such matters were insignificant!
As for Narukami, the deity enshrined here, Yae Miko herself had done things that most Inazumans would